Installing nodegit on archlinux failes while building with:

Error: /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4: version `CURL_OPENSSL_3' not found (required by node_modules/nodegit/build/Release/nodegit.node)

I think this was introduced by PR #1195

The issue is, that nodegit wants libcurl abi-3, while archlinux default libcurl is abi-4.

How to fix

At least on arch-linux nodegit should link against libcurl-compat (which is abi-3 and provides libcurl.so.3 as well as libcurl-compat.so), not libcurl (which is abi-4 and is incompatible with CURL_OPENSSL_3).

How to reproduce

• Grab and boot a manjaro live-cd (https://manjaro.github.io/), which should be easier/faster then bootstrapping arch
• Install nodejs with pacman/yaourt
• Try to install nodegit with npm

Sidenote

Effected third-party tools are for example GitKraken on arch (see comments) which comes with prebuild nodegit binaries but fails to load because of missing/wrong symbols in libcurl.so.4. This can be fixed by loading libcurl-compat before libcurl using the LD_PRELOAD trick.